Angel Palomares cooks chicken for El Torito Meat Market on the weekends. As he put it “No me gusto comida de Estates Unidos.”

Angel doesn’t speak any English, nor I any Spanish. We worked it out with Google Translate.

Angel works seven days a week.

He left Mexico after studying to be an electrical engineer and a teacher.

Now he cooks chicken on the weekends and cuts grass on the weekdays.

He says he misses his family and especially his fiancé, who he will marry when he returns home in 2026.

He left behind his family to work here.